KB Ballentine Finn Bille Chattanooga Writers Guild Meeting

Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 Place: Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library Time: 7:00 p.m. This meeting is free and open to the public.

Program: Poetry Coffeehouse

The Chattanooga Writers Guild Poetry Group, in an early celebration of April's National Poetry Month, will host a Poetry Coffeehouse. The CWG is proud to present KB Ballentine, Finn Bille, Nancy Diwan, Kitty Forbes, Roger Meyer, and Helga Kidder as they share with you readings from their own original poetry in an informal coffeehouse atmosphere. **************************************************************************** Memoir Group Meets Tues., Mar. 2, 6-8 p.m.

This new writers' group meets at First Presbyterian Church, Tower 405, McCallie Ave. Park behind the Tower and enter the black doors of the Connector. If you have a memoir piece to read, email Karen at kphillipso@aol.com.

Screenwriting Mini-Course in Works

The CWG is partnering with the local AFFT (Association for the Future of Film and Television) (http://www.affttennessee.org/ ) to present a mini-course on the basics of screenwriting. The workshop will take place on three nights in March, similarly to our recent popular memoir classes. Cost of the class is free to dues-paid CWG and AFFT members. If you want to help with this program, please contact Lantz Powell at Lantzlp@aol.com. When the class ends, we hope to form a screenwriting group, which will meet on a regular basis.

The Writers Show

Listen to The Writers Show at www.wawl.org on Sunday, March 7 at 1 p.m. Amber Nagle will talk about the new Chattanooga Writers Guild memoir group that she co-facilitates. Amber will also share some of her memoir newspaper columns and talk about the nonfiction freelance market. This program also can be heard after March 7 at http://sites.google.com/site/thewritersshow. Check for other archived shows.

Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition Winner

The Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition (www.shortstorycompetition.com), in its 30th year, supports and encourages the efforts of emerging writers of short fiction. As part of the partnership, The Post will have the first serial rights to and annually be the exclusive magazine publisher of the competition's winning story. "Lazarus," by 2009 winner Gregory Loselle, can be read in the magazine's current issue.

Throughout its history, The Saturday Evening Post has introduced and published fiction and poetry from a long list of celebrated writers, including Edgar Allan Poe, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain, Jack London, Agatha Christie, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The magazine's new alliance with the competition is part of The Post's recent restoration of fiction as an important component of its editorial mix.

The twenty-third day of April has traditionally been celebrated as the anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth in 1564. Tradition maintains, too, that the Bard of Avon passed from these earthly realms on April 23, 1616.
Regardless of the Bard's actual birth and death dates, the Mirror would like to honor Shakespeare's literary legacy during April--and celebrate National Poetry Month--with a poetry contest. The contest is for young and old, and everyone in between.
Selected by our editorial board, winning compositions will be published in the April Mountain Mirror.
Poem submissions must be no longer than 200 words, and must make at least three references (clever wins every time) to William Shakespeare's body of work.
Please email your poems to Andrew Clark mtncped@bellsouth.net,

or snail mail to: Mountain Mirror Poetry Contest, P.O. Box 99, Lookout Mountain, TN 37350. Please include a telephone number and your home address.
Winners will not only have their poems published in the Mirror, but they will also be invited to recite their poetry at the highly anticipated Signal Mountain Library Poetry Night in April (date to be announced).

10 Rules for Writing Fiction

This is the first part of the article. The link for Part Two is found in two places on this page.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-one

KB Ballentine Included in Tipton Poetry Journal

Tipton Poetry Journal's Issue #16 (Winter 2010) has been published.
The online version will be posted within the next two weeks. Copies of the Winter 2010 issue, as well as back issues, and subscriptions can be purchased online at: http://tiptonpoetryjournal.com.

Meacham Writers' Workshop March 23-27

The deadline for submitting work has been extended to March 5.

Find more information here:

http://www.meachamwriters.org/schedule.htm